Enviromental Issues

Dana Nuccitelli
Monday 31 October 2016
Climate denial often centers around myths about the importance of coal in alleviating poverty
The coal-fired Castle Gate Power Plant is pictured outside Helper, Utah. Photograph: George Frey/Reuters
A dozen international poverty and development organizations published a reportlast week on the impact of building...

By Lindsey Pulse
Oct 27th 2016 11:59AM
The world's animal species are dying, and humans are a big reason why.
The World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet Report shows global populations of wild mammals, fish, birds, amphibians and reptiles declined 58 percent on average between 1970 and 2012.
Broken down,...

Thomas L. Friedman SEPT. 7, 2016
Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
HONOLULU — Robert Macfarlane, in his book “Landmarks,” about the connection between words and landscapes, tells a revealing but stunning story about how recent editions of the Oxford Junior Dictionary (aimed at 7-year-olds) dropped certain...

Scientists at the biggest U.S. oil company understood as early as anyone that fossil fuel emissions were heating up the earth’s atmosphere.
Paul Barrett
Matthew Philips matthewaphilips
Cover photo-www.iran-daily.com
September 7, 2016 — 11:00 AM CEST
Last fall, ExxonMobil executives hurried along the hushed, art-filled halls of the company’s Irving, Texas, headquarters,...

- Close to 15% of the Earth's land and 12% of its territorial waters are covered by national parks and other protected areas.
- Coverage of marine protected areas more than quadrupled in the last decade.
- Eight in 10 key biodiversity areas worldwide lack complete protection.
Every...

Michal Szymanski, UN Environment News & Media
Alessandro Badalotti, IUCN Congress media team
UNEP News Center
1 September 2016
Yesterday, the US announced that by 2020, they would invest $100 billion per year to help developing countries fight climate change.
India and the US committed themselves to the new agreement...

A host of innovations in energy technology is transforming the climate-change outlook – one of the world's three required paradigm shifts.
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Paul Rogers
A wind farm in Elan Valley, Wales. (Photo: Richard Walker/flickr/cc)
Heatwaves of more than 50⁰C in Iraq and India in recent weeks are yet further...

The EPA hasn't released a study on ethanol or any other biofuel in years.
By Erin Marquis Aug 25th 2016
A new study released by the University of Michigan on Thursday found the assumption that biofuels are better for the environment than gasoline is just that –...

Scott Montgomery
August 12, 2016
Originally posted on ourfiniteworld.com
Written by Gail Tverberg
The Peak Oil story got some things right. Back in 1998, Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère wrote an article published in Scientific American called, “The End of Cheap Oil.” In it they said:
Our analysis of the discovery and...